Miso Soup – rebalance.naturalmed

Ingredients

• Miso paste 1 tbsp per person (to taste, more or less depending on strength of flavour you prefer)
• 1 onion finely diced
• 4 sticks of celery diced
• 1-2 carrots diced
• 1 beetroot diced (optional, not traditional)
• 1 small kumara diced (optional)
• 6 shiitake mushrooms (can use button or other chinese mushrooms)
• 1 handful of wakame seaweed soaked
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (not traditional) or other cold pressed oil or quality fat
• Thumb sized Tumeric (finely chopped or 1-2 tsp ground, optional, not traditional)
• 3-4 sliced of ginger
• Dash of liquor (gin, sake, cooking rice wine) (optional)
• Handful of fresh greens per person; kale, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, chinese greens, wash, trimmed & cut to smallish pieces.
• 1-2 spring onions finely chopped
• A decent handful of coriander loosely chopped
• 3 tsp functional mushrooms (I used, Maitake, Shiitake, Reishi, Turkey tail, Lion's mane)
• 3 cloves garlic finely chopped, added just before serving
• Toasted sesame oil
• Dash of white pepper